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Title: Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

Author(s): Armin Falk, Andreas Kuhn and Josef Zweimüller

Publication Date: September 2009

Keyword(s): cost of unemployment, Hate crime, right-wing extremism and unemployment

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We empirically test this hypothesis using data from Germany. We find that right-wing criminal activities occur more frequently when unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime and questions explanations based solely on the different socialization in former communist East Germany and the liberal West German states.

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Falk, A, Kuhn, A and Zweimüller, J. 2009. 'Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7467